Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

29/04/1918

Date of Discharge

24/03/1919

Place of Enlistment

Sydney NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

24/12/1889

Place of Birth

Birmingham, England

Address (at enlistment)

Duntroon ACT

Occupation

Steward

Next of Kin

Elsie Paynting (wife), Duntroon ACT

Service Number

21027

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

Australian Army Medical Corps AIF

Paynting was an Englishman who had been working as a steward at the Royal Military College, Duntroon from February 1916 when he enlisted, but was living in Canberra before that because he married Elsie Tow at St. John the Baptist Church of England in 1915. He served on the hospital ship Karoola with the Australian Army Medical Corps from April 1918 until being discharged in March 1919. He returned to work at RMC after the war but his wife died in 1920 (she is buried at St. John's). He is listed in 1928 as a farmhand living at 'Springbank' near Acton. He later remarried and was living at Cabramatta in Sydney when he enlisted for service in World War 2. Paynting died in Sydney in February 1980.

Description - height 5 feet 11 inches, weight 154 pounds, chest 33-36 inches, fair complexion, grey eyes, brown hair, Church of England.

WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
Jean Salisbury, 'Canberra: St. John's Churchyard 1844-1998', Canberra 2000 (p.196, entry for Elsie Paynting)
Queanbeyan Age - 21 November 1919
Roll of Voters - The Territory for the Seat of Government 1928
Sydney Morning Herald - 26 February 1980
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)